Mintimer Shaimiev meets with Anatoly Lubavin

On January 30 Tatarstan State Counsellor Mintimer Shaimiev met with Vice President of the Russian Academy of Arts, Rector of the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov, Professor Anatoly Lubavin, who arrive in Kazan to examine students of the Kazan branch of the Moscow State Academic Art Institute, in the Kazan Kremlin.

To the point, Anatoly Lubavin is head of the graphic studio at the Kazan branch.

The branch of the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov was opened in Kazan in 2008 and is the only branch of the institute in Russia.

Rector of the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov thanked the first President of Tatarstan for supporting the idea to open Kazan branch and assisting in transferring a beautiful historic building constructed in 1905 after the plans of the Russian architect Karl Mufke to the branch.

Anatoly Lubanov invited Mintimer Shaimiev to take part in presentation of diploma works of the first graduation of the Kazan branch this summer.

Anatoly Lubavin also told Mintimer Shaimiev about his meeting with Tatarstan Minister of Culture Airat Sibagatullin, at which issues related to further development of higher art education in the region were discussed.

Director of the Kazan branch of the Moscow Art Institute Makhmut Vagapov told Mintimer Shaimiev about the education process and summer internship of students in the island town of Sviyazhsk.